Would the R1 fit my needs?

I have read hours on these forums and haven't found a direct answer to a few things. Hope you guys can help out.

I am specifically going to be using the laptop for Bc2/MoH/Mw2 and mabye some wow and Sc2. I have seen that Steven has gotten some decent results with doing a ton of work to his laptop to get it running good. I want to know if it can play these games at the native res with a 1.5-1.6ghz OC at decent FPS or do I need to get the R2 for that? I dont want to mess around with custom drivers made by people or spend hours on the laptop all the time trying to get it optimized with each patch change etc. Also I dont know if there is going to be much driver support for the R1 in the future with new games.

I am looking at the m11x from best buy for $799 that is still the R1 version right?

I know there are punkbuster issues with the R2 which im sure they will resolve sometime. I am somewhat more interested in the R1 for the fact that it seems to run games = to the R2 with the i7 and its cheap right now. I dont want to spend a ton on a R2 when it has the same GPU and would rather wait till the R3 to spend a ton on everything upgradeable. I swear that alienware is going to release a R3 in the next while especially since they are doing sales on the R2 until the 30th or something this month and new technology stuff usually comes out in october and jan(hopefully a R3 with a better screen and GPU). The battery life in the R1 seems like it would be awesome! I Just dont want to cut myself short by buying the duo model vs the i7 if it wont play my games as good.

Thanks for the help!
(btw I have been a member on these forums under snowbro for a few years but for some reason I cant post anymore after i didnt use the account for a year???)

 

I think ones from best buy only comes with depot service. I suggest one from Dell outlet.

 

Just got mine from Best Buy, at $799 which I think is a great price. Not a huge gamer or anything but it runs the 2 games I play, WOW and SL (which is can be a bugger on laptops but runs like a dream on this.)

I have never had a problem with Best Buy when it came to warranties (I always get the extended and so far they have never let me down). Overall, I couldn't be happier!

 

The big selling point for the m11x is portability. If you dont need portability and good battery life there are better gaming laptops for under $1000.

I have the latest NVidia vanilla drivers on the R1 and still get 4 hrs + just from normal usage. Gaming is about 2hrs.

The other consideration of the R1 vs R2 other than the price is the battery life. The R1 lasts quite a bit longer than the R2; I speak under correction but the maximum for the R1 is 8 hrs and the R2 is 6 hrs. Granted this is doing nothing with the laptop, but this is the average that people have reported.

OH! And of course remember, even if your laptop cant play games anymore at least it looks cool as hell!

 

I love my R1.

With some tweaks from this forum, I get 6:40 battery life on the Integrated card, about 3:45 on the discrete. I usually only use the discrete while gaming so it's plugged in anyways. If you're a college student with a sweet tooth for games then I'd highly recommend this laptop. I got mine for 3$ over 1000$ and it's worth every penny. Honestly, manual graphics switching is the way to go if you don't want one of the i series quad cores. I might add that I've heard that the quad cores don't really give a large boost to performance but I'm probably wrong on that.

 

Yeah I like the battery life on the duo version. Basically the battery life is the only thing that seperates me from the m15x. The r2 doesnt have a quad core though. It has 2 cores with hyperthreading. Its the i7um and the mobile quads are the i7QM versions. Most older games like 09 and down were made for duo's. I just don't know how the r1 will do on the newer games out and the ones coming out like BC2, MoH, SC2 etc. Thats the only thing stopping me from buying the r1.

 

Oh, I was under impression that the i series were quad cores.

 

yes the ULV I series has duo core with 2 threads so they spin it like a quad but it's not. If they would release the ability to control the tdp turbo or tdp on the processors the R2 would be a monster. Imagine the ability to hang at like 2.6mhz all the time with all 4 threads... Now that.. Is a m11x I want to see...



StevenX

 

So back to the main question. Will the r1 run bc2,MoH type of games which I play at medium settings with allright fps or should I really just spend a few hundred more on the i7 for these games? I plan to OC the r1 no question. Mabye a little OC on the i7.

 

So I was looking and the original m11x says it has a su4100 duo and the duo version now that you can buy says it's the SU7300 duo. Does the SU7300 model have optimus?

 

No, I think the main difference is it has more cache. I don't know the architecture differences but the 7300 is "newer" as well.

 

Both are about the same time.

As for the Optimus question - in theory, both have Optimus enabled (Nautis has more on that), but nVidia/Intel/Dell have not done so for the m11x R1, yet (ever?).

 

The SU7300 has optimus??? I thought just the i core models do like the i5,i7 etc. I'm confused now.

Alienware - Laptop / Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor / 11.6" Display / 4GB Memory / 250GB Hard Drive - Cosmic Black - AM11X-2719CSB

^^^ Is this not an R1?

 

Hello,

I am sorry for muddeling the waters a bit.

R1 = no optimus
R2 = optimus


HOWEVER, Nautis (a member here) has modified the nVidia drivers, in a pure proof of concept (google "laptop video 2 go hybrid" for more info) demo, that R1 can be modded to work with Optimus... with some issues.

 

This is a case where going for the price diffrence between the 7300 and 4100 you are better going for the su4100. The small performance diffrence between the two is not worth the extra money for the su7300.

 

Haha no one still has directly answered if the best buy m11x model is the r1

 

Not a problem anymore!

Dell has already removed the SU4100 as an option, and upgraded all new orders to the SU7300 - for free. No price hike to match it

It's how I got my SU7300

Uselessly "faster," but hey - I gotta love the higher number

EDIT: 900usd BB model is R1. 950USD+ model is R2.

 

I did'nt know that they stopped offering the su4100. Now you tell us they are offering the su7300 without the $100.00 price diffrence? So glad I did'nt get the early su7300 model but I can hear the screams of those who payed out the "extra" money for the "extra" performance

 

This thread should be closed since it has failed to answer any questions